Word: maspero
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...Francois Maspero...
...with this paradox that journalist Francois Maspero describes his first novel, Cat's Grin. The tale of a thirteen-year-old boy who seeks his deported parents and missing brother during the upheaval of the French Liberation after the Second World War, Cat's Grin is about the author's own childhood. Yet Maspero protests that the book is "not an autobiography--definitely...
...adult author attempts the difficult task of recalling a thirteen-year-old's confusion, incredulity and shock at the whirlwind of tragedy which buffeted him. Fact and fiction are inextricably mixed. To patch the gaps in his memory, Maspero reimagines the half-mad atmosphere of a 1944 France through the widening, narrowing eyes of a child called...
...Maspero's The Dawn of Civilization: Egypt and Chaldea...
...stinging exchange of personal charges through the newspapers, M. Camille Aymard, political director of La Liberté and famed big game hunter, challenged M. Herriot, leader of the Radical bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, to a duel, and sent Ernest Outrey, Deputy for Indo-China, and M. Maspero, ex-Governor of Indo-China, to M. Herriot, as his seconds. They were referred to Deputies Edouard Daladier and Alexandre Varenne, seconds for M. Herriot. The seconds were to meet to decide whether a duel was warranted and, if so, how it was to be fought...